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A 12-year-old Oklahoma City girl is home safe after her short kidnapping sent people on a desperate search to find her.

Chelsea Mitchel wanted to ride with her father to drop off her grandmother at work on Tuesday morning. She fell asleep in the back of the Chevrolet Impala on the ride home. Her father, William Mitchel, was less than a mile from home when he decided to stop for gas and a coffee at Portland Avenue and Northwest 10th Street.

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That’s when their morning turned into a nightmare. He returned to find his car and daughter gone.

Police quickly began searching the area for the stolen vehicle. They released video showing a white suspect in a black jacket taking the vehicle.

“How I woke up is because this guy was getting me out of the car and sitting me down,” the Washington Oaks fourth-grader said. “He took the dog out and drove off.”

It was about 45 minutes after the carjacking. She was in Pottawatomie County, in McLoud, but she had no idea that she had been kidnapped.

“He didn’t tell me nothing, just drove off,” she said.

She walked to a Love’s Gas station where she tried to call her father.

“And figured if he didn’t answer his phone was in the car,” she said.

She asked the store workers for help and was quickly identified by police as the missing girl. She said she was more confused than scared, expecting to see her father, but instead seeing a stranger.

“If she would have known what was going on, it would have bothered her,” her father explained, relieved that his daughter was not traumatized.

The single father of four said he’s very protective of his children, especially his three daughters, and this experience is going to make him even more protective.

Police were able to track Thomas Eugene Boutwell to a home southeast of Pink in Pottawatomie County about three hours after the carjacking. Other stolen vehicles were located on the property.

Online records show Boutwell has two felony convictions dealing with drugs and has been on a deferred sentence since August 2016. He’s being held by the Oklahoma City Police Department for larceny of a vehicle and kidnapping.